Massachusetts special election today: A Brown victory means Obama's done too much for LGBT's
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Alex Blaze
January 19, 2010 9:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/01/massachusetts_special_election_today_a_brown_victo.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/01/massachusetts_special_election_today_a_brown_victo.php)
Bridgette LaVictoire thinks LGBT's might not get out to vote in the special Senate election today:
It is there that Massachusetts becomes a problem. Massachusetts is a state with some of the largest numbers of LGBT Americans in the country, and a large number of LGBT allies. The lack of movement on Obama's part on these issues is discouraging, and many may be unwilling to vote for Coakley because Obama has been so timid when it comes to these battles. In many ways, it will not be the fact that the Democrats went too far with health care reform and financial reform and even the repeal of anti-LGBT laws that lost them this seat, and threatens to make 2010-2013 a legislative deadlock unlike anything this nation has seen in a long time, but rather the fact that the Democrats did not go far enough in pursuing an agenda of popular Progressivism.